Ashley Madison’s parent company rebrands as Ruby, drops infamous ‘Have an affair’ tagline
How to watch MobileBeat 2016
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As Google faces landmark legal fight in Canada, tech firms and advocacy groups rally in support
Silvercar taps legendary quarterback Troy Aikman as spokesperson for car rental service
EU-U.S. commercial data transfer pact is now in force
Seagate increases job cut plans to 6,500, though hard drive sales remain strong
Amazon Prime Day: The deals you can get today and how Walmart is fighting back
Microsoft CEO: Chatbots will ‘fundamentally revolutionize’ computing
GM and Lyft to expand short-term rental partnership after it ‘dramatically exceeded expectations’
GameLink will aggregate VR porn content in one site
Google self-driving car project names first general counsel as scrutiny rises
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Self-driving cars are really coming, whether we’re ready or not
Twitter expands GIF size limit to 15MB, but only for the web
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Robert ‘Botfather’ Hoffer will explain the amazing success, and failure, of SmarterChild bot (at MobileBeat)
This tool lets you geo-fence your Facebook Live video broadcasts
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Teaching black men to code against the backdrop of police killings of black men
You can now favorite Hacker News posts and comments
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Here are the 6 international botathon finalists that will present at MobileBeat 2016
Evernote’s new CTO is former GoDaddy exec Anirban Kundu
Theranos’ weirdest sin: Sloppy record keeping
eBay acquires predictive analytics startup SalesPredict to boost its machine learning
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Your mobile attention span is now so short you won’t finish this article
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From viral sensation to monetization powerhouse: How Trivia Crack turns players into profits (VB Live)
Facebook testing ability to let you buy event tickets directly from its site and apps
Rovi’s $1.1B TiVo acquisition receives approval from the FTC and DOJ’s antitrust arm
Recruitment chatbot Mya automates 75% of hiring process
Cisco partners with bot makers Gupshup and API.ai
Japan’s Line prices IPO at top of the range, may raise up to $1.3 billion
What Facebook Messenger encryption means for the future of chatbots
‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 premiere debuted on Twitter and Facebook, but only for a short time
Elon Musk alludes to top secret Tesla masterplan reveal
6 unusual Facebook Messenger chatbots you should try
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What Steve Case’s ‘third wave’ means for global startups
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Why chatbots will never completely replace humans
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Tech companies: If you work with government, your data should be public
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Founders: Here’s how to build an effective board
Why Hearsay Social’s Clara Shih pushes companies to think digitally
Obama worried about State Department handling classified information after Clinton probe
